Journal
ELECTRONICS
Volume 10, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics10151803
Keywords
smart grids; renewable energy systems; distributed energy resources
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- BP Oman [BP/DVC/SERC/17/01]
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This article presents the development of a platform for real-time monitoring of multi-microgrids, which is interoperable, scalable, and includes a two-way communication channel and an informative software dashboard for monitoring DERs.
This article presents the development of a platform for real-time monitoring of multi-microgrids. A small-scale platform has been developed and implemented as a prototype, which takes data from various types of devices located at a distance from each other. The monitoring platform is interoperable, as it allows several protocols to coexist. While the developed prototype is tested on small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs), it is done in a way to extend the concept for monitoring several microgrids in real scales. Monitoring strategies were developed for DERs by making a customized two-way communication channel between the microgrids and the monitoring center using a long-range bridged wireless local area network (WLAN). In addition, an informative and easy-to-use software dashboard was developed. The dashboard shows real-time information and measurements from the DERs-providing the user with a holistic view of the status of the DERs. The proposed system is scalable, modular, facilitates the interoperability of various types of inverters, and communicates data over a secure communication channel. All these features along with its relatively low cost make the developed real-time monitoring platform very useful for online monitoring of smart microgrids.
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